How Elite Has Tony Romo Been?

[NeonDeion21]

Here is a list of quarterbacks since 2000 who have thrown for at least 250 yards, 2 or more touchdowns with no interceptions and a yards/attempt of over 9:



Romo finishes 5th on that list, ahead of Brett Farve, Roethlisberger, Rivers, and even Kurt Warner. While that criteria is pretty impressive, we are going to crank up the critera some to show some even more elite games. Here is the list of quarterbacks, since 2000 who have thrown for at least 300 yards, 3 or more touchdowns, no interceptions with at least a 60% completion percentage:

Read the rest at: http://cover32.com/cowboys/2015/02/26/how-elite-has-tony-romo-been/

 

[big dog cowboy]

He has been more elite than most give him credit for. We will really miss Tony after he retires.

 

[Risen Star]

Last year he was the best QB in the league. Including that media darling, golden boy, fraud MVP.

 

[Crown Royal]

I've always been on the "Tony is a great QB without a supporting cast" side of the Romo argument. I will readily admit that it was always a theory, and there was always that little bit (3-5%) doubt that said maybe, just maybe, I'm wrong and he really is just an ok QB. And then I started thinking, even if we're right about him being without a supporting cast, with his back and age we'll never know.

And then 2014 happens - we decide YES, we WILL run the ball, AND stick with it. We WILL play better on defense, and our WRs WILL know their routes (seriously - how long has it been before 2014 where you went games without seeing the WR run the completely incorrect route?). And Romo goes on to dominate the league.


Some stats he is great, some he is alright. I don't know if career wise Romo is a top 3 QB, but I am certain he is a top 7 and some seasons he is top 5. In 2014 he was the absolute best QB. He is in my mind the best QB of this generation who has never had the truly dominant team around him and has suffered for it (I almost said he shares this with Rivers, but the San Diego team was fantastic for several years). The best thing is that I think most fans now agree with this. One or two years ago he caught flak, but I think in speaking to most people, the idea that he is a Loser or "Unclutch" has mostly evaporated.

 

[Crown Royal]

A point of discussion that I'd like to present:

Tony Romo may not be an elite passer, but he is undoubtedly an elite QB.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

We're going to do this again?
No supporting cast - having to do it all. Asked to do too much.

Great, great, great stats.

When he is needed the most. Not so great.

I hope he wins us a Super Bowl so these threads mean something.

Right now, meaning of this thread = not so much.

 

[NeonDeion21]

We're going to do this again?
No supporting cast - having to do it all. Asked to do too much.

Great, great, great stats.

When he is needed the most. Not so great.

I hope he wins us a Super Bowl so these threads mean something.

Right now, meaning of this thread = not so much.

It's something different than the Dez Bryant non-sense. "Shrug"

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Elite enough where about a 1/4 of our resident forum members have gone on sabbatical.

 

[DFWJC]

Elite enough where about a 1/4 of our resident forum members have gone on sabbatical.

How awesome is this.Sooo right.

I was cleaning up some of my saved links and came across the pre-draft thread where Babe Laufenberg said Tony is done. All kinds of comments on that thread about how some would cry tears of job when he was replaced, that we had to take Manziel, etc. I noticed, that most of those posters have not been heard from much in while.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

I've always been on the "Tony is a great QB without a supporting cast" side of the Romo argument. I will readily admit that it was always a theory, and there was always that little bit (3-5%) doubt that said maybe, just maybe, I'm wrong and he really is just an ok QB. And then I started thinking, even if we're right about him being without a supporting cast, with his back and age we'll never know.

And then 2014 happens - we decide YES, we WILL run the ball, AND stick with it. We WILL play better on defense, and our WRs WILL know their routes (seriously - how long has it been before 2014 where you went games without seeing the WR run the completely incorrect route?). And Romo goes on to dominate the league.


Some stats he is great, some he is alright. I don't know if career wise Romo is a top 3 QB, but I am certain he is a top 7 and some seasons he is top 5. In 2014 he was the absolute best QB. He is in my mind the best QB of this generation who has never had the truly dominant team around him and has suffered for it (I almost said he shares this with Rivers, but the San Diego team was fantastic for several years). The best thing is that I think most fans now agree with this. One or two years ago he caught flak, but I think in speaking to most people, the idea that he is a Loser or "Unclutch" has mostly evaporated.

Well said.

 

[Sportsbabe]

Here is a list of quarterbacks since 2000 who have thrown for at least 250 yards, 2 or more touchdowns with no interceptions and a yards/attempt of over 9:



Romo finishes 5th on that list, ahead of Brett Farve, Roethlisberger, Rivers, and even Kurt Warner. While that criteria is pretty impressive, we are going to crank up the critera some to show some even more elite games. Here is the list of quarterbacks, since 2000 who have thrown for at least 300 yards, 3 or more touchdowns, no interceptions with at least a 60% completion percentage:

Read the rest at: http://cover32.com/cowboys/2015/02/26/how-elite-has-tony-romo-been/

With a capital E.
When you look up the word in the dictionary you see his face.

 

[zrinkill]

When he is needed the most. Not so great.

Bull.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

We're going to do this again?
No supporting cast - having to do it all. Asked to do too much.

Great, great, great stats.

When he is needed the most. Not so great.

I hope he wins us a Super Bowl so these threads mean something.

Right now, meaning of this thread = not so much.

He put the ball right where it needed to be in GB this past season. replay blew that one.

 

[Crown Royal]

Bull.

When he was needed most he posted the best december he had ever posted. After Thanksgiving EVERYONE assumed Philly would run with the division. And then Romo basically killed everyone he faced...including Philly.

But that doesn't fit this narrative.

When he was needed most in the Detroit game...he threw a go ahead TD.

When he was needed most in the GB game - he throws a SICK pass to the best WR in the league....what happens after that is hardly on Romo.

 

[DFWJC]

He put the ball right where it needed to be in GB this past season. replay blew that one.

He also threw the game-winning TD pass in the wildcard game.
Did the same thing in his last game of the season vs Washington last year to avoid elimination..
Those are his most recent opportunities...the ones that should matter most. he came through incredibly .

Not sure HOW someone can look themselves in the mirror every day after say flat out lies.
I mean, that does not get more "being there when you need him most"...it is the very definition of it.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

He also threw the game-winning TD pass in the wildcard game.
Not sure HOW someone can look themselves in the mirror every day after say flat out lies.
I mean, that does not get more "being there when you need him most"...it is the very definition of it.

Romos done it time and time again. Sure he's made bad decisions at times. What QB hasn't?
Wilsons last decision wasn't a great one.

 

[Everson24]

I love Tony Romo and will really miss him when he retires. I have always thought that he was a bordeline elite quarterback who just happens to have some of the worst luck of any quarterback in NFL history. He in many ways is the anti-Eli Manning. It just seems when the big moment presents itself something bad always happens and many times it is something completly out of his hands.

Take for example the bogus overturned spot of the Witten catch in the Seattle playoff game in 2007 where a first down there lets us run down the clock and we probably score a TD instead of the FG atempt, How about Patrick Crayton dropping his only pass of the season after Romo does a great job of escaping the pass rush and throwing a perfect pass against the Giants. Or Crayton stopping his route on what would have been a game winning TD pass with 7 seconds left in the 2008 playoff game against the New York Giants. How about Dez's fingertip landing just out of bounds in what would have been a great come from behind win against the Giants in 2012. Or Miles Austin running a bad route and then losing the ball in the lights when a completion there gives us the division in 2011. How about this year when Tony Romo throws the perfect pass and Dez Bryant makes a great catch only to have Gene Steretore and Dean Blandino take it away in a terribly unfair manner.

There are many others I can cite like in the 51-48 Denver loss when Tyron Smith gets pushed back into Romo and trips him just as he releases the ball. I could go on and on. It just seems like something bad always happens to him.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Romos done it time and time again. Sure he's made bad decisions at times. What QB hasn't?
Wilsons last decision wasn't a great one.

I can list at least a half a dozen games, crucial games that he singlehandedly lost.
But I won't. Why bother....

Let this thread go where it wants. Glorifying the numbers.

A little but of Jeter in Romo would go a lonnnnnnnnnnnggggg way here.....

 

[Dave_in-NC]

I can list at least a half a dozen games, crucial games that he singlehandedly lost.
But I won't. Why bother....

Let this thread go where it wants. Glorifying the numbers.

A little but of Jeter in Romo would go a lonnnnnnnnnnnggggg way here.....

And any one can list dozens of plays he's made out of nothing. What's your point?

 

[zrinkill]

I can list at least a half a dozen games, crucial games that he singlehandedly lost.
But I won't. Why bother....

Let this thread go where it wants. Glorifying the numbers.

A little but of Jeter in Romo would go a lonnnnnnnnnnnggggg way here.....

So in all the games he has played in ...... you are claiming he messed up in 6 of them.

Wow ........ 6 ........ guy must be a bum.